Affordable Elegance – Keeping Things Simple But Beautiful

Elegant and beautiful home decor is not limited to millionaires alone. You do not need a million dollars for a single Victorian-era wall decor to make your home beautiful. When your interior-renovation budget is limited, but you want to make sure that you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to keeping simple elegance in your home, keep these three equally simple pointers in mind:

Messages
Why is it that some pieces of decor, even if they are cheap and off the bargain bins, are able to make such an impact on you, while other more expensive ones are forgettable and unimpressive?

That is because each decor is a piece of art in itself, with a unique message contained within them. Each piece of decor gives a message to its beholder: power, relaxation, whimsy, culture and history. Learn to read and understand these messages, and you will be able to select the decor you will need for your home; building it up around a theme that can give you what you are looking for.

Space
Decor serves primarily to cover the empty space in a room, and this is one thing you should be mindful about: the space that needs to be occupied. Your primary aim here would be to fill it up while making sure that it is done in a manner that beautifies and complements the messages that the rest of the room gives off.

Some people tend to overstuff their homes with junk: a desperate attempt to fill up the empty space in their homes. This is not home decoration – this is simply creating a garbage dump in your home. As much as having a few hundred random cheap ‘stuffs’ in your living room will speak volumes about your ability to collect, it would often result in a total mess. This is where harmony comes in.

Harmony
As esoteric as it may sound, harmony is the most important factor in home decor, since it is all about making both the latent messages in a piece and the space it fills up fit into a picture of beautiful elegance. This is why most furniture comes in sets, as they are designed to ‘harmonize’ with each other.

A simple but most effective example would be a bonsai tree in an empty room. It’s hardly costly, with a single tree in an entire room, but the way it is emphasized as the centerpiece of the room serves as the harmonizing factor in a room. Harmony is the result of a decor’s innate message making full use of the space around it to convey that message clearly and efficiently.

From simple but striking wall decor to coffee tables with a small plant gracing its top, affordable and elegant home decoration is surely within your grasp. You just need to know how to read the message that a piece of art has to say, to make sure it has its proper place in your room, and mix them together to create harmony, and you are all set to make a more beautiful home for yourself.